siker

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siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)

sikere (plural)
sikere (singular weak)
sikerer (comparative)
sikerest (superlative)

English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)

Scots: sicker, siccar

→ Welsh: sicr

Inherited from Old English sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sure.

safe, secure (not harmful or dangerous):


sauf

English: safe

Scots: safe, sauf

Borrowed from Old French sauf, from Latin salvus, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós.

Safe, protected; unable to be harmed or hurt

(religion) Undamned or saved; delivered from torment.

Undiminished, having full effect or force, legally effective.


ridership

(Late Middle English, rare) The position of a ranger who travels on horse.


hengen

From Old English hengen, from Proto-West Germanic *hangini.

(Early Middle English, hapax) imprisonment


saven

enm-verb

saven (third-person singular simple present saveth, present participle savynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle saved)

saveth (present singular third-person)
savynge (participle present)
saved (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
saven (infinitive)
to saven (infinitive)
save (infinitive)
save (first-person present singular)
saved (first-person past singular)
savest (present second-person singular)
savedest (past second-person singular)
saveth (present singular third-person)
saved (past singular third-person)
save (present singular subjunctive)
saved (past singular subjunctive)
save (imperative present singular)
saven (plural present)
save (plural present)
saveden (past plural)
savede (past plural)
saveth (imperative plural present)
save (imperative plural present)
savynge (participle present)
savende (participle present)
saved (participle past)
ysaved (participle past)

English: save

Geordie English: syev

Scots: safe, sauf

Borrowed from Old French salver, sauver, from Latin salvō, salvāre; equivalent to sauf (“safe”) + -en (infinitival suffix).

af

(transitive, intransitive) To preserve or store:

To securely keep or lock away (goods or a person)


trone

English: tron, trone

Scots: tron, trone

From Anglo-Norman trone, tron, from Late Latin trona, from Latin trutina (“balance”).

One of the planks used to make the Holy Cross.


morter

English: mortar (see there for further descendants)

Scots: mortar

→ Welsh: morter, mortar

Borrowed from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium.

Grout or mortar (that which holds bricks together)


savely

English: safely

Scots: safely

Guardedly; ensuring security and lack of loss.

For defensive purposes; in order to preempt harm.


savacioun

English: salvation

Scots: salvation

Borrowed from Old French salvacion, sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōnem; equivalent to saven + -acioun.

Security; the act of making or state of being protected.


Newgate

English: Newgate


shirrevehod

English: sheriffhood


shirevewyk

English: sheriffwick

From shirreve + wike (“official, position”).


shirreve

English: sheriff, shrieve

Scots: shirra

From Old English sċīrġerēfa; equivalent to shire (“shire”) + reve.

A sheriff; a person responsible for a number of different tasks, including law enforcement and judicial responsibilities.


byndynge

English: binding

Scots: bindin

A tie, binding or knot; that which binds:


champioun

English: champion (see there for further descendants)

Scots: champion

From Old French champiun, champion, from Medieval Latin campiō, from Proto-Germanic *kampijô. Doublet of kempe (“soldier”).


schildyng

English: shielding


serche

English: search

Scots: sairch

Yola: surchte

Borrowed from Old French cerche (“search”), from cerchier (“to search”); compare serchen.

bor+

The privilege to investigate crime (usually violations of guild code)

A supervisor of a convent (monastery for women).

(rare, Late Middle English) An inspection or inquest of goods or products.


savegard

English: safeguard

Scots: safegaird

From Middle French sauvegarde, from Old French salve garde, sauve garde; equivalent to sauf + garde.

Safeguarding, guardianship; the ensuring of security.


serjaunt

enm-noun

serjaunt (plural serjauntes or serjauns)

English: sergeant

→ Manx: sarjant

Scots: sairjint

Borrowed from Old French sergeant, from Medieval Latin serviēns. Doublet of servaunt.

A law enforcement officer charged with apprehending and ordering summons.


dongeoun

English: dungeon, donjon

Scots: dungeon

Borrowed from Old French donjon (“main residence of a castle, fortified tower”). The sense "underground cell below the keep of a castle", first attested in Anglo-Norman (13th c.) and not in other varieties of Old French, may have been influenced by the etymologically unrelated Old English dung (“underground prison cell”). An early manuscript (c1300) of the Middle English poem A disputacion bytwene þe bodi and þe soule uses the word "donge" in the same line, cited below, where the later Vernon manuscript (c. 1380-1400) uses the word "dungoun" ("Þe erþe hemsulf it lek aȝeyn, Anon þe donge it was fordit").

m+

The eorthe closede hit self aȝeyn, And the dungoun was for-dit.

c. 1325 – 1390, A disputacion bytwene þe bodi and þe soule, (Vernon manuscript)


savete

English: safety

Scots: safety, sauftie, safity

Borrowed from Old French sauvete, salvete, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem; equivalent to saven + -te.

Safety, security; being unharmed or unharmable.


teyen

enm-verb

teyen (third-person singular simple present teyeth, present participle teyinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle teyed)

teyeth (present singular third-person)
teyinge (participle present)
teyed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
teyen (infinitive)
to teyen (infinitive)
teye (infinitive)
teye (first-person present singular)
teyed (first-person past singular)
teyde (first-person past singular)
teyest (present second-person singular)
teyedest (past second-person singular)
teydest (past second-person singular)
teyeth (present singular third-person)
teyed (past singular third-person)
teyde (past singular third-person)
teye (present singular subjunctive)
teyed (past singular subjunctive)
teyde (past singular subjunctive)
teye (imperative present singular)
teyen (plural present)
teye (plural present)
teyeden (past plural)
teyede (past plural)
teyden (past plural)
teyde (past plural)
teyeth (imperative plural present)
teye (imperative plural present)
teyinge (participle present)
teyende (participle present)
teyed (participle past)
teyd (participle past)
yteyed (participle past)
yteyd (participle past)

English: tie

Scots: tee, tie

Inherited from Old English tīeġan, *tēġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną; equivalent to teye (“cord”) + -en (infinitival suffix).


gayole

English: jail, gaol

Scots: jile, jyle

/ɡæi̯ˈɔːl(ə)/

/ɡaːˈɔːl(ə)/

/d͡ʒæi̯ˈɔːl(ə)/

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, gaiole, from Latin caveola. Forms with /v/ probably reflect Old French forms that retain the medial labial of Latin caveola.

jail, prison (place for confining prisoners)


gayoler

English: jailer, gaoler

Scots: jiler

→ Middle Irish: seigléir

Irish: séiléir, séileoir

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiolier, gaiolier; equivalent to gayole + -er. For forms with /v/, see gayole.

His yonge sone, that three yeer was of age,
Un-to him seyde, ‘fader, why do ye wepe?

late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3621-3624

Is ther no morsel breed that ye do kepe?’
His young son, who was three years of age,
Unto him said, ‘Father, why do you weep?
When will the jailer bring our soup,
Is there no morsel of bread that you do keep?’


pynden

enm-verb

pynden (third-person singular simple present pyndeth, present participle pyndynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative pynde, past participle pynd)

pyndeth (present singular third-person)
pyndynge (participle present)
pynde (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
pynd (participle past)
pynden (infinitive)
to pynden (infinitive)
pynde (infinitive)
pynde (first-person present singular)
pynde (first-person past singular)
pynded (first-person past singular)
pyndest (present second-person singular)
pyndest (past second-person singular)
pyndedest (past second-person singular)
pyndeth (present singular third-person)
pynde (past singular third-person)
pynded (past singular third-person)
pynde (present singular subjunctive)
pynde (past singular subjunctive)
pynded (past singular subjunctive)
pynde (imperative present singular)
pynden (plural present)
pynde (plural present)
pynden (past plural)
pynde (past plural)
pyndeden (past plural)
pyndede (past plural)
pyndeth (imperative plural present)
pynde (imperative plural present)
pyndynge (participle present)
pyndende (participle present)
pynd (participle past)
pynded (participle past)
ypynd (participle past)
ypynded (participle past)

English: pind (dialectal)

Middle Scots: poynd, puynd

Scots: pund, puind, poind, pynd, pind

→ English: poind

Inherited from Old English *pyndan (and derived ġepyndan), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan; compare pound.

To enclose or confine; to set up boundaries:

(of animals) To shut up in a pound; to impound.

(figuratively, rare) To check or restrain oneself.


countour

English: counter, compter

Scots: counter, coonter

Borrowed from Old French conteor and Middle French contoir; equivalent to counte (“computation”) + -our.